Aguirre-Sacasa, who was part of the team brought in to rescue the Broadway fiasco "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," picks up on what worked best in the 2000 movie adaptation of Ellis' novel starring Christian Bale.
I rummaged around the foot of the bed in the dark, picking up my clothes and pulling them on, made a thermos for my Sidamo coffee, and set out for the forest in Prospect Park.
Alien wore all the bells and whistles of sci-fi, but it was really a horror movie in fancy dress: the story of a blade-wielding lunatic hiding in the dark, picking off a gang of dimwits one by one before being outwitted by the final girl.
Mark your calendars and place your bets: The producers of Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" have picked a new date, June 14, for their opening night, which has now been delayed six times.
Parents and guards in dark suits picked up small children to give them a look.
The Dark Knight picked up best director for Christopher Nolan, best supporting actor for the late Heath Ledger, best cinematographer for Wally Pfister and best original score for James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer.
But as late arrivals like "Lincoln," "Les Misérables" and "Zero Dark Thirty" picked up steam, "Argo" began to seem like an underdog, a status more or less solidified when the film received seven Oscar nominations but not one for its director, Ben Affleck, a nod usually necessary for a best-picture win.
While its dark color, picked up a generation ago with a coat of charcoal-gray paint, makes Obsidian House, as it is called, an outlier on a block of cream-to-buff-to-red-brick buildings, it is thanks to a recent renovation that the building has one-upped the neighbors again.
ALONA BONDARENKO If you are looking for a dark horse pick to win this year, look no further than Lisicki.
Alona Bondarenko vs. Sabine Lisicki: If you are looking for a dark horse pick to win this year, look no further than Lisicki.
